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Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation (三菱航空機株式会社Mitsubishi Kōkūki Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese company dedicated to the development, production, sales and support of the Mitsubishi SpaceJet (formerly MRJ) passenger airliners. The manufacturing of the aircraft is carried out by parent company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI).[1]
MAC was established on April 1, 2008. MHI controls the company with a 64% shareholding. Toyota Motor Corporation and Mitsubishi Corporation each own 10% shares; other shareholders include Sumitomo Corporation and Mitsui & Co.[1]
MAC is headquartered at Nagoya Airfield in Komaki in Aichi Prefecture, adjacent to the MRJ production facilities.[2] It has branch offices in Nagoya and Tokyo which are co-located with MHI offices. MAC has overseas subsidiaries based in Amsterdam and in Plano, Texas.[1]
CEO Teruaki Kawai has indicated that the company will not produce aircraft larger than the MRJ, as MHI is a major supplier to Boeing (including manufacturing wings for the Boeing 787), and the group generally lacks the capability to compete with Airbus and Boeing.[3]
Following on from Bombardier Aviation's divestment of its CSeries and Dash 8 programmes, on 25 June 2019 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announced the acquisition of Bombardier's CRJ programme, in a deal expected to close in the first half of 2020, subject to regulatory approval.[4] Mitsubishi will benefit from Bombardier's global expertise in areas ranging from engineering and certification to customer relations and support, boosting its SpaceJet (formerly MRJ) programme, and potentially enabling the SpaceJet to be produced in North America.[5] The deal includes two service centres in Canada and two in the US, as well as the type certificates for the CRJ.[6] Bombardier will retain its assembly facility at Mirabel, near Montreal, Canada, and will continue to produce the CRJ on behalf of Mitsubishi until the current order backlog is complete. The deal does not cover Bombardier's aerostructures facilities in Northern Ireland and Morocco.[7].
In September 2019, Mitsubishi Aviation announced the creation of a 'SpaceJet Montreal Centre' in the Boisbriand suburb of Montreal, initially employing around 100 staff to participate in Spacejet M90 certification and entry-into-service activities. Flight testing is being conducted from a site in Moses Lake, Washington, in partnership with AeroTEC.[8]
Products[edit]
Mitsubishi Mrj 200
- Mitsubishi SpaceJet (MRJ)
- Bombardier CRJ700 series (from 2020)
References[edit]
- ^ abc'Company Profile'. Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation. Archived from the original on 19 February 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^Kohase, Yusuke (5 January 2015). '三菱航空機、名古屋空港に本社移転 小牧南工場に隣接'. Aviation Wire. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ^'Q&A: Mitsubishi Aircraft CEO on Japan's New Jet'. Wall Street Journal Japan Real Time. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^'Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to Acquire Canadair Regional Jet Program from Bombardier Inc' (Press release). Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. 25 June 2019.
- ^Hemmerdinger, Jon (6 June 2019). 'ANALYSIS: How the CRJ could save the MRJ'. Flightglobal.com.
- ^Chua, Alfred (26 June 2019). 'Mitsubishi eager to tap into CRJ expertise'. Flightglobal.com.
- ^'Mitsubishi, Bombardier reach agreement to acquire CRJ program'. Leeham News and Analysis. 25 June 2019.
- ^Hemmerdinger, Jon (19 September 2019). 'Mitsubishi Aircraft to open Montreal office as MHI nears CRJ buy'. Flightglobal.com.
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